Georgetown: Former Member of Parliament and Minister Manzoor Nadir has been elected Speaker of the National Assembly while Leader of the Liberty and Justice Party and representative of the joinder list in the National Assembly Lenox Shuman has been elected Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly in the 12th Parliament.
Parliament convenes Tuesday at the Arthur Chung Conference Center.
Nadir has a political career already spanning 40 years; he is a former five-term Member of Parliament, first being elected in 1992 after the October 5th General Elections as former Leader of the United Force political Party.
He served in the opposition from 1992 to 2001. Nadir, an Economist by profession, later served in the Cabinet of the PPP government for a total of 10 years during which time he held the position of Minister of Labour from 2001 to 2011.
Shuman went up against former Speaker Raphael Trotman for the post of Deputy Speaker and secured the majority votes to be successfully elected to the position.
He will, however, not occupy that seat for the entire life of the 12th Parliament. He will have to vacate that seat in keeping with a rotation agreement between the three parties.
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